If you haven't spotted it yet, there is a 9 minute preview of BioShock 2 at IGN. Watching it confirms that you do indeed play a Big Daddy, the original prototype that could use plasmids. Your relationship with the Little Sisters has some similarity with the first game, but with a rather interesting twist apart from the basic binary decision. Splicers aren't quite the challenge they were in the first game, but don't worry; there is a Big Sister out there i

TweakTown had a peek at engineering samples of DFI's UT P55-T3eH8 and DK P55-T3eH6 boards, both running off of the Intel P55 Express chipset. These boards will support the soon to be released LGA-1156 Core i5 quad-core Lynnfield processors, as well as the Havendale family which will have an on-die GPU. Don't hold your breath for the Havendale processors, according to this article they will be delayed until the beginning of 2010 because Intel is shifting them to 32nm.

When you pick up a higher end headset and mic combo, it tends to be based on a USB connection. Not only is it handy to have one single plug to find, the USB connection usually allows the use of that headset without having to install any drivers. Unfortunately some rigs have problems with audio over USB, and an older style TRS plugs are the way to go. While the Saitek GH30 Vibration Headset doesn't have a high end microphone, it will give you s

Global Foundries is one of the biggest stories in tech right now and not just because of the licensing lawsuit. This new fab company that Ryan visited in northern New York state has a jump on the next process transition and a lot of contracts coming in. Josh fleshed out the overview late last week with his in depth article here. He explains just why this new company has received such a
warm welcome in what is usually a very tight knit industry. They have the backing of one of the richest plac

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the spun-off manufacturing arm of AMD, is aggressively pursuing new customers with promises of industry leading performance and efficiency as a startup in the foundry industry. We take a look at the technology and aims of this new giant, and see if they can in fact compete with the well respected and powerful TSMC.

A Net connection has become a necessity
for a lot of people, even if it is a basic feed via a cell phone. There are many threads in the PC Perspective forums that deal with dodgy network cable, broken NICs, both driver and software issues all in an attempt to ensure that our forum members can keep their Net connection healthy. One piece of hardware has been neglected in comparison; how do you go about fixing the actual modem?&

Nothing makes hardware fetishists madly speculate about new technology than a fuzzy picture like this one. As we discussed on this weeks PCPer Podcast, there appears to be appears to be 32 cores paired with 32 vector processing units although it is hard to be exact. That the picture isn't clear is not the only problem, new architecture can bring significant changes to the structures on the die and the only tools we have are to compare them to previous generations, like the P2 tha

Much speculation has been made about how AMD's recently spun off manufacturing capability can manage to compete with such long standing and very large manufacturers like TSMC. We've speculated that innovations like Advanced Process Management as well as process shrinkage, but it looks like they have other shoes in the fire. They've poached a senior director from TSMC and a past VP from one of their major clients, Altera. DigiTimes also feels they have

When Dawn of War II first came out, we heard all about the new take on RTS that it provided, along with the inclusion of Boss battles. We saw a lot of performance data on the game, with most of the cards that were current at the time being tested. Since then, both AMD and nVIDIA have been churning out cards at an incredible pace, with a new generation of cards having never seen a benchmark of DoW II performance.